SO426 Polar References

 

 

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+ - Excerpts will be made available on Blackboard

 

 

Technical/Science References

 

Carsey, Frank W., Ed., 1992.  Microwave Remote Sensing of Sea Ice, American Geophysical Union Monograph

Curry, Judith A., and Peter J. Webster, 1999.  Thermodynamics of Atmospheres & Oceans, Academic Press, San Diego, CA, 471 pp.

*+Jones, CDR David W., and W.N. Meier.  Polar Science, unpublished, 123 pp.

*Parkinson, Claire L., and Warren W. Washington, 1986.  An Introduction to Three-Dimensional Climate Modeling, Univ. Science Books, Mill Valley, CA, 422 pp.

+Parkinson, Claire L., 1997.  Earth from Above:  Using Color-coded Satellite Images to Examine the Global Environment, Univ. Science Books, Sausalito, CA, 175 pp.

+Pickard, George L., and William J. Emery, 1990.  Descriptive Physical Oceanography, Butterworth-Heinemann, Oxford, 320 pp.

Pond, Stephen, and George L. Pickard, 1993.  Introductory Dynamical Oceanography, Butterworth-Heinemann, Oxford, 329 pp.

Smith, Walker O., Ed., 1990.  Polar Oceanography, Part A, Physical Science, Academic Press Inc., San Diego, CA, 406 pp.

Twitchell, Paul F., Erik A. Rasmussen, and Kenneth L. Davidson, Eds., 1989.  Polar and Arctic Lows, A. Deepak Publishing, Hampton, VA, 421 pp.

*Wadhams, Peter, 2000.  Ice in the Ocean, Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, Australia, 351 pp.

 

Historical References

 

Alexander, Caroline, 2001.  The Endurance, Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 211 pp.

Guttridge, Leonard F., 1986.  Icebound, The Jeanette Expedition’s Quest for the North Pole, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 357 pp.

Mulvaney, Kieran, 2001.  At the Ends of the Earth:  A History of the Polar Regions, Island Press, Washington, DC, 286 pp.

Shackleton, Ernest, 1998.  South:  A Memoir of the Endurance Voyage, Carroll & Graf, 380 pp. (originally published 1919).

Shackleton, Ernest, 1999.  South:  The Story of Shackleton’s Last Expedition, 1914-1917 (edited by Peter King), Trafalgar Square Publishing, North Pomfret, VT, 207 pp. (originally published 1919).

Solomon, Susan, 2001.  The Coldest March, Scott’s Fatal Antarctic Expedition, Yale Univ., 383 pp.

 

Many, many more in Nimitz


Narrative and Fiction References

 

Arms, Myron, 1998.  Riddle of the Ice: A Scientific Adventure into the Arctic, Anchor Books, Doubleday, New York, 267 pp.

Barrett, Andrea, 1998.  The Voyage of the Narwhal, Norton, New York, 399 pp.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1798.  The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.

Hoeg, Peter, 1993.  Smilla’s Sense of Snow, Dell, New York, 499 pp.  (Translated from Danish by Tiina Nunnally).

Lopez, Barry, 1986.  Arctic Dreams, Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape, Bantam, Toronto, 464 pp.

Mulvaney, Kieran, 2001.  At the Ends of the Earth, A History of the Polar Regions, Island Press, 286 pp.

*Robinson, Kim Stanley, 1999.  Antarctica.  Bantom Books, 653 pp.

Shelley, Mary, 1818.  Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus.

 

Many more available in Nimitz

 

 


SO426 Journal References

 

Primary Technical Journals

 

*Annals of Glaciology

Antarctic Journal of the United States (online access only)

Arctic:  Journal of the Arctic Institute of North America

Arctic Research of the United States

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (online access only)

EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union

Geophysical Research Letters

Journal of Applied Meteorology

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Journal of Geophysical Research, Oceans

Journal of Geophysical Research, Atmospheres

*Journal of Glaciology

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Monthly Weather Review

Nature

Science

 

Other Technical Journals

 

*Backscatter

Climatic Change

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

International Journal of Climatology

International Journal of Offshore and Polar Engineering

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Journal of Marine Research

Marine Pollution Bulletin

Remote Sensing of the Environment (online access only)

 

Non-technical Journals, Magazines, and Newspapers

 

Discovery

National Geographic

Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command News

New York Times

Science News

Scientific American

USA Today

Washington Post

Weatherwise

 

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